1752

1752 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).

Events

*Adam Smith at the University of Glasgow transfers to professor of moral philosophy
*English Scientist Lord John Davies first observes what is later recognised as respiratory collapse
*A fire in Moscow destroys 18,000 houses

January

February

*February 11 - Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the US, is opened.

March

* March 23 - The Halifax Gazette, the first Canadian newspaper

April

May

June

* June 6 - Fire destroys part of Moscow
* June 15 - Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity using a kite and a key.

July

August

September

* September 14, Gregorian Calendar - The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, making it necessary to skip eleven days (September 2 being followed directly by September 14 this year)

October

November

December

Births

* January 1 - Betsy Ross, American entrepreneur (d. 1836)
* January 23 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (d. 1832)
* January 31 - Gouverneur Morris, American diplomat and politician (d. 1815)
* February 17 - Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (d. 1831)
* February 25 - John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (d. 1806)
* May 11 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840)
* June 13 - Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (d. 1840)
* July 7 - Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor (d. 1834)
* August 13 - Queen Marie Caroline of Naples and Sicily (d. 1814)
* September 18 - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (d. 1833)
* November 20 - Thomas Chatterton, English poet (d. 1770)
* November 29 - Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (d. 1819)
* Humphry Repton, English garden designer (d. 1818)
* John Nash, English architect (d. 1835)
* Philip Freneau, American poet (d. 1832)

Deaths

*January 4 - Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (b. 1704)
*January 16 - Francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705)
*February 9 - Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (b. 1722)
*May 3 - Samuel Ogle, British provincial Governor of Maryland
*May 23 - William Bradford, British-born printer (b. 1663)
*June 16 - Giulio Alberoni, Italian cardinal (b. 1664)
*June 16 - Joseph Butler, English priest and theologian (b. 1692)
*July 20 - Johann Christoph Pepusch, German composer (b. 1667)
*July 29 - Peter Warren, British admiral
*August 22 - William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667)
*November 5 - Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (b. 1670)
*November 6 - Ralph Erskine, Scottish minister (b. 1685)
*Jacopo Amigoni, Italian painter (b. 1675)
*Francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705)
*Old Briton, Piankashaw chieftain

Various calendars

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